At Guimarães Jazz, where he performed several times in the past, Lovano will perform with his Trio Tapestry, an unusual combination of saxophone, piano and drums featuring with two exceptional musicians – Marilyn Crispell and Carmen Castaldi.

Marilyn Crispell is a pianist and composer active in jazz since 1978. A musician associated to contemporary music and avant-garde jazz, Crispell gained wider recognition as member of Anthony Braxton’s Creative Music orchestra and of the Reggie Workman Ensemble, having also collaborated extensively with drummer Paul Motian, himself a long-term collaborator of Lovano, and the composer Pauline Oliveros, among many other musicians, visual artists and writers.

Carmen Castaldi is, like Joe Lovano himself, a native of Cleveland, where the two musicians met during their adolescence and from where both of them departed to study music at the University of Berklee, Boston. Commonly associated to the East Coast jazz scene, Castaldi’s career was decisively marked by his collaboration with musicians such as Teddy Edwards and Bill Perkins. Castaldi’s partnership with Lovano survived through time and has been materialized in several records and tours, namely with Lovano’s Street Band.

Trio Tapestry, which is also the title of the album released by ECM last January, reveals a more personal, intimate and free dimension of Joe Lovano’s music, supported in rich rhythmic, melodic and harmonic textures. The lyrical tonality of Crispell phrases and the subtlety of Castaldi’s improvisations create atmospheres that Lovano’s saxophone transforms into landscapes, adding definition to a music which sounds chromatic and emotional, while at the same time never losing sight of jazz’s tradition in its origin. Both introspective and contemplative, uninterested in virtuoso ambitions, and focused mainly on the expression of beauty, the trio’s sound explores meditative and sensorial dimensions of musical creation, interpreted by three musicians of great artistic sensibility, committed exclusively to the purpose of sharing and of the congregation of spirits.